On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 08:33:06PM -0400, Ben Lipton wrote:
> Package: tripwire
> Version: 2.4.2-9
> Severity: important
>
> Tripwire segfaults every time I run it on my system, whether in initialize or
> check mode. Specifically, it segfaults the first time it encounters a file
> owned by a user whose access to the machine is configured in LDAP, not in
> /etc/passwd. The crash seems to occur in cUnixFSServices::GetOwnerForFile,
> when it calls the getpwuid() function on the LDAP user's uid number.
>
> I have been able to get a segfault from the following program, as well, when
> compiling with the following command line:
> g++ -g -static -o test test.cpp
>
> test.cpp:
>
> int main() {
> struct passwd* pp = getpwuid( 3104 );
> printf("%s\n",pp->pw_name);
> }
>
> The tripwire package is configured to use the --enable-static option, which
> both generates warnings of the type "Using 'getpwuid' in statically linked
> applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version
> used for linking." It seems like this would be ok (it's just a warning, after
> all) but the function actually segfaults. I don't know if this counts as a
> bug in the getpwuid() function, but it definitely prevents me from using
> tripwire. Recompiling the package after removing --enable-static from
> debian/rules produced a .deb that works for me.
Hi, sorry for the delay in the answer.
Does "getent passwd $SOME_RANDOM_USER_NOT_IN_PASSWD" work ok in your system?
Thanks,
Alberto
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